English 11

Friday 1. Watch the rest of Macbeth. 2. WOW! Your comments in Recap yesterday were very thoughtfully done. Comment on the 2nd and 3rd  questions today if you haven't already done so. 3. Think about the details about soliloquies that you looked over in OneNote yesterday. Read some student examples on the CBC website below. Try your hand a writing a Shakespeare "Selfie" on your own, or with a partner. Place your creative effort into OneNote in the collaboration folder, BUT submit it using a fake name (use the fake name as the title of the document): something literary or Shakespearean.  Examples here:  2018 CBC Shakespeare Selfie Contest Contest: http://www.cbc.ca/books/the-2018-shakespeare-selfie-student-writing-challenge-1.4084894 Thursday 1.  Read the OneNote page I have placed in your folder called Shakespeare's speeches. Read through the info on soliloquy and read the various soliloquies and speeches from Macbeth. Then go to Recap:  En...

Delivering your speech...* * due Friday, February 23 Friday 1. Evidence of quality in the final copy of your speech + add in an example of parallelism. 2. PearDeck! rhetorical devices. 3. Cops & Robbers - rhetorical devices. Thursday 1. QUIZ - run-on sentences. 2. Questions about speeches tomorrow? 4. Parallelism exercises. 5. Evidence of Quality in Speech final copy. Wednesday 1. Go over the answers to the run-on sentence questions? QUIZ is tomorrow. 2. Discuss presentation of speeches this Friday. Speeches - DELIVERY -  activity. School of Rock  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37oJqWp4rJM Election:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh3TXsx8B40   Crazy, Stupid Love  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FZ1PWXk_l0    Coach Carter  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_fDhqRk_Ro Lean on Me :38 sec  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWW4KogocfQ FhHNdt8dQI&index=4&list=PLmZTDWJGfRq0koFVPPfcgOpzog9mTdPkF ...

OUR INQUIRY QUESTIONS Are leaders born or made? How do leaders use language to persuade/influence/manipulate others? Friday 1. KAHOOT https://create.kahoot.it/details/rhetorical-devices/6667141d-9177-47b9-84c2-cf7e315db505 OR https://create.kahoot.it/details/rhetorical-devices/dc0fc7a7-61f7-4ecd-9313-25aa342c92dc 2. Parallelism  AND   avoid clichés 3. Work on your speech. Definition of a completed first draft: a complete version of your work that meets the criteria for the assignment, that is spell-checked, grammar-checked, typo-checked, capitalization checked and sources cited. If your speech has too many errors, I will not be able to give you feedback. 4. Macbeth summary:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFtCYESosDw Thursday https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story 1. Tell me the topic for your speech. Remember this is a 3-5 minute PERSUASIVE speech with a strong structure or organization, a great beginning...

Thursday RECAP Let's Queue this up! Enter Join Pin NIMAFUJ at https://app.letsrecap.com/pin I Have a Dream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dKimoybmEo How do leaders use language to persuade others? Discover some ways to organize a speech... 1. Oprah's speech http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42586730 2. TED talk with Nancy Duarte https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks 3. How to write a TED talk http://www.forbes.com/sites/nickmorgan/2012/07/09/5-quick-steps-to-a-killer-ted-speech/#8674c2241aea 4. Speech analysis - look at the structure/oganization of ideas only. Pick a speech from this site  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLyr-hfWVCKHcZjV5fg3jbw Wednesday Oprah's speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKuKc7KTt9g  - abbreviated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN5HV79_8B8  - full speech 9 minutes text https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/08/entertainment/oprah-globes-speech-transcript/index.h...